I worry a bit about using a global find-and-replace to turn someone's prefix into [[PREFIX]]. I wrote a little Python script that's a bit more focused on the abbreviation items in the plist file. It uses Python's nifty plistlib module.

Since there doesn't seem to be a place to upload .tedit files, this script is currently useful only to Brett. But I'm assuming the TE-Tool section on the TE-Snippets site will be opened up to mere mortals soon…

Man that is cool i am a new textspander guy and love it! Thanks

Nicely done, Brett, and [[PREFIX]] is a better choice than just PREFIX.

This will, however, force you to write a post explaining to people how to turn their .textexpander files into .tedlist files.

Brett, This is a truly brilliant idea. I personally like the may you made them; however, I can appreciate some people needing to edit the groups to fit there needs. Since I know you I don't wanna kiss your "Okole" (the Hawaiian Word for rear end) I blow your head up with too many complements, But no seriously you an amazing freak of nature when it comes to solving the day to day minutia for Nerdom.

Aloha

I'm sorry, but I don't understand what this is or what it does. I'm an avid TE user and have been for a couple of years. Whatever you've created sounds cool, but I don't get it.